Nell Gwynn House
A ten-storey Art Deco residential tower completed in 1937 on Chelsea’s Sloane Avenue, designed by G. Kay Green and standing alongside his earlier Sloane Avenue Mansions.
Balfour Building
An Art Deco tower in downtown Toronto, named for the author of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, historically linked to the city’s Jewish clothing industry.
Granada, Tooting
A masterpiece of 1930s Art Deco cinema design in south London, Granada Tooting remains one of Britain’s most spectacular surviving picture palaces and the first 1930s cinema to achieve Grade I listing.
Ftira
Ftira is a ring-shaped leavened Maltese bread filled with sardines, tuna, potato, tomato, and olives, with distinct regional variations between mainland and Gozitan traditions.
Yeondeunghoe lantern festival
Yeondeunghoe is Korea’s lantern-lighting festival honoring Buddha’s Birthday, where paper lanterns symbolizing light, hope, and unity illuminate temples and streets each fourth lunar month.
Space of gong culture
In Vietnam’s Central Highlands, gongs are sacred vessels housing deities, central to ritual life among the Rade, Jarai, Bahnar, Mạ, and Koho peoples.
Nōgaku theatre
Nōgaku pairs lyric drama (noh) and comic theatre (kyōgen) in a refined Japanese performance tradition that balances contemplation with laughter through mask, gesture, music, and poetic language.
El Güegüense
El Güegüense is a satirical theatrical masterpiece combining music, dance, and drama—Nicaragua’s signature folkloric work performed each January in Diriamba during the Feast of San Sebastián.
Festivity of Saint Blaise
An annual February 3 celebration in Dubrovnik honoring Saint Blaise, the city’s patron saint, unbroken since 972 AD and recognized as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009.
Pinisi boatbuilding
The art of rigging and building wooden sailing vessels distinctive to South Sulawesi, using a two-masted configuration with seven to eight sails opened like curtains along fixed gaffs.